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New Search Patents: May 3, 2006 – Microsoft and IBM Dominate with Recent Search Filings
With Google quiet, a recent flurry of activity burst out at the US Patent and Trademark Office from Microsoft and IBM, including the granting…
Google Health Coming Next Week?
A USA Today blog entry has a hint from Marissa Mayer of Google that Google Health may be coming as soon as next week.…
Daily SearchCast, May 3, 2006: Would Microsoft Marry Yahoo?; The Flow Of Visitors From Amazon To Google; Class Action Suit Against Yahoo Over Adware Distribution & More!
Today’s search podcast covers news that Microsoft and Yahoo have talked partnering; stats on how much traffic was going from Amazon to Google; a…
April 2006 Search News Recap Posted
The latest edition of my monthly Search Engine Report newsletter is now online, recapping tops stories in search from the past month. You can…
Philips Bodygroom: Making Ass Shaving Manly
How do you make something as vain as men’s body shaving seem proudly masculine? By associating it with promiscuity, of course, and casting the…
One More Reason to Listen
If you’re responsible for a brand, a Web site, a campaign or a business of any kind, you know you should be listening, don’t…
Google Not Tops In South Korea
Google fails to make inroads in South Korea from the Associated Press is a interesting look at how there’s at least one country where…
Class Action Fraud Suit Filed Against Yahoo Over Adware & Domain Distribution
Via Threadwatch, Suit Levels Spyware, Typosquatting Allegations at Yahoo at the Washington Post covers a class action lawsuit filed against Yahoo and others claiming…
Yahoo & Microsoft Have Talked Partnering, Merging
I was talking with Kevin Delaney of the Wall Street Journal on Monday about search things in general and mentioned the sense it makes…
Google & Brazil Fight Over Orkut User Data Rights
AmericasNetwork.com reports that Google and Brazil are at it again, in terms of Google’s Orkut, social networking product. Google appeared in front of the…
Ask.com Second TV Blitz Stars Chief Scientist Guru, Apostolos Gerasoulis
ClickZ reports that Ask.com will be launching its second set of “post-Jeeves campaigns” today (see 1st set here). In these TV campaigns, you may…
The Importance of Measurement to Successful SEM
Anyone running a search marketing campaign and not taking advantage of the wealth of analytics tools available to track and measure results is literally…
Nearly 10 Percent Of Amazon Visitors Clicked Off To Google
Yesterday, I wrote about how Amazon had ended its relationship with Google and why not being in Amazon — rather than Amazon-owned A9 —…
Multichannel Metrics: Managing the Sea of Data
Paying attention to web metrics is an increasingly important aspect of search marketing, with methodologies, processes and tools that can dramatically lift marketing and…
The Search Engine Report – Number 114
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan recaps top search engine stories from April 2006.
The Search Engine Update – Number 220 – May 3, 2006
Search Engine Watch editor Danny Sullivan's recap of top search engine stories from the second half of April 2006.
New Yahoo Home Page Design, Again?
I reported in March on a new Yahoo design for the front page. I was just informed by Mark Angeletti of Search-This.com of a…
Daily SearchCast, May 2, 2006: Google Double Standards On Microsoft’s IE7 Search Plans; Amazon Dumps Google For Microsoft; Topographical Maps At Ask & More!
Today’s search podcast covers Google wanting Microsoft to give searchers more choice in choosing their Internet Explorer 7 search engine but not already doing…
MSN Bests Google & Yahoo in Search Shootout
Interlink, a Cincinnati web marketing research, search engine optimization and consulting firm, recently ran some tests to assess performance of major (and minor) search…
Thousands Protest Google China’s New Name
Google’s new Chinese moniker GuGe is drawing criticism from many Chinese users who say it is “weird,” “unsophisticated,” and could damage the “cool” image…